Category: Tutorials
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Quick and Dirty Data Viz of Canadian Federal Candidates
A couple of months ago I posted about using Flourish to build a bar chart race data visualization. Shortly after that Flourish had another blog post highlighting all the different ways their site could be used to visualize election data, and I've had it bookmarked waiting for another opportunity to experiment with the service. Earlier…
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Thoughts on building my first bar chart race with Flourish
If you're on social media you've probably seen a bunch of bar chart races pop up in the past couple of weeks. The folks at Flourish have a good post chronicling the "new" phenomenon. Even better, Flourish created a template which makes it pretty easy to build your own, so that's what I did. Here…
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Installing Extensions in Open Refine – note to self: RTFM
One of my all-time favourite open source tools is Open Refine, which "is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." Today I'm talking about that extending bit. One of the nice features of Open Refine is…
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Factiva filters for Fake News Phenomenon
Thanks to a tip from my colleague Dani I learned that Factiva has recently added a filter for fake news. Like many things with Factiva (IMHO), it's not terribly intuitive to find, so here are the steps. You can either add this as a filter to a search you've already run, or just use it…
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First run on autoEdit 2, open source transcription tool
Having had this tab opened for what seems like forever, I finally got around to running some tests of autoEdit 2, an open-source automatic transcription tool (automatically creates a text file from a given audio or video file). This tool only runs on the Mac, and there are two flavours, if you will. One, Gentle…
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Before and After – Calgary and Ft. McMurray
The other day Google Earth released updated historical imagery, so I thought it’d be neat to take a peek at two spots I know have grown a lot since 1985, the date of the earliest imagery. I also wanted a quick and dirty way to make a before/after image slider, as shown on the above…
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Mapping Western Economic Diversification Grants
A few weeks ago two new data sets appeared on the Open Data Canada website, WD – Grants and Contributions over $25,000 and Project Geo-Information, which "provides geographical information on projects issued by or on behalf of Western Economic Diversification Canada." Not particularly well-named data sets, but that's another issue. I thought it would be a…
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4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad: A Comparative Guide
I received an email from JP letting me know that a link on an old post of mine, The definitive guide to iOS screencasting, was no longer good. He knew that 'cause he'd just finished writing a much more comprehensive post called 4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad:…
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12 Screencasting tools that were all new to me
Admittedly I haven't spent lots of time staying up-to-date on screencasting tools, but I have to admit I was surprised that a recent list on MakeUsOf, Record Your Desktop with These 12 Great Screencasting Apps, contained all new stuff to me. Take a look, maybe you'll find something useful there! (OK, obviously I know about…